Richard Wagner / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Marek Janowski – Parsifal (2012) [CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Richard Wagner / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Marek Janowski - Parsifal (2012) [CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Richard Wagner / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Marek Janowski – Parsifal (2012) [CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
4x EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log
4x SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz | Stereo & Multichannel
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.85 GB (CD-Layer) + 11.3 GB (SACD ISO) + 9.47 GB (SACD FLAC Mch) + 4.61 GB (SACD FLAC Stereo) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Pentatone Classics | Germany | Cat#: PTC 5186 401| Genre: Classical

Parsifal is the second installment in Pentatone’s ambitious project to record Wagner’s ten important operas between in 2011 and 2013 in celebration of the bicentennial of his birth, featuring live concert performances with Marek Janowski leading Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and Rundfunkchor Berlin. Janowski is an old hand at Wagner, having conducted the first (and very fine) digital recording of The Ring, and he brings a sure understanding and unified conception to Parsifal. One of its most immediately noticeable characteristics is its urgency, which essentially means faster tempos. His version at three and three-quarters hours is nearly a half hour shorter than classic recordings like Knappertsbusch’s 1951 Bayreuth version and Solti’s Decca release. What’s gained is a momentum and sense of dramatic movement in an opera that’s notorious for bogged-down performances. It also has the effect of making the opera seem more personal, even intimate at moments, because the momentum gives the dialogue between characters such immediacy. Janowski is sensitive to allowing the music plenty of space to unfold where it calls for evoking a timeless expansiveness, such as the scenes in the Hall of the Grail. The orchestra and chorus perform with seamless assurance and with a velvety sensuality. Janowski keeps textures transparent so that details of the scoring are easily audible, and that transparency also contributes to the intimacy of his reading. The exemplary vocal performances are uniformly very fine, and the singers bring an acute sense of drama to their roles and their interactions The recording is blessed with a wealth of expressive, resonant, tonally sumptuous, and clearly differentiated low voices, including Evgeny Nikitin as Amfortas, Dimitry Ivashchenko as Titurel, Franz-Josef Selig as Gurnemanz, and Eike Wilm Schulte as Klingsor. Christian Elsner is a passionate Parsifal and his ringing tenor is heroic and robust. As Kundry, Michelle DeYoung sings with warmth and poignancy and is especially effective in her rich lower register. The sound of the hybrid multichannel SACD is immaculate and spacious. ― Allmusic

Disc 1 – Act I
01. Vorspiel – 11:37
02. He! Ho! Waldhüter ihr – 04:52
03. Seht dort, die wilde Reiterin – 02:59
04. Gawan! Herr! Gawan weilte nicht / Recht so! Habt Dank! Ein wenig Rast – 06:28
05. He! Du da! Was liegst du dort wie ein wildes Tier? – 05:46
06. O wunden-wundervoller heiliger Speer – 03:21
07. Titurel, fromme Held – 09:43
08. Weh! – Hoho! – Auf – Wer ist der Frevler – 06:39
09. Nun sag’! Nichts weist du, was ich dich frage – 06:40

Disc 2 – Act I
01. Vom Bade kehrt der König heim – 01:44
02. Verwandlungsmusik – 02:39
03. Zum letzten Liebesmahle / Nun achte wohl und lass mich seh’n – 06:24
04. Mein Sohn Amfortas, bist du am Amt? – 03:06
05. Wehvolles Erbe, dem ich verfallen – 06:35
06. Nehmet hin mein Blut / Enthüllet den Gral! – 07:01
07. Wein und Brot des letzten Mahles – 05:54
08. Was stehst du noch da? / Auszug der Ritter – 05:08

Disc 3 – Act II
01. Vorspiel / Die Zeit ist da – 05:45
02. Ach! Ach! Tiefe Nacht! Wahnsinn! / Furchtbare Not! – 07:10
03. Ho! Ihr Wächter! Ho! Ritter! – 03:19
04. Hier war das Tosen! – 03:43
05. Komm, holder Knabe! – 04:51
06. Parsifal! Weile! – 02:47
07. Dies alles hab’ ich nun geträumt? – 03:14
08. Ich sah das Kind an seiner Mutter Brust – 04:58
09. Wehe! Was tat ich? Wo war ich? / Bekenntnis wird Schuld in Reue enden – 05:08
10. Amfortas! Die Wunde! – 06:44
11. Grausamer! Fühlst du im Herzen / Ich sah ihn / Nun such’ ich ihn von Welt zu Welt – 10:46
12. Vergeh, unseliges Weib! – 03:35

Disc 4 – Act III
01. Act 3 – Vorspiel – 04:24
02. Von dorther kam das Stöhnen – 07:58
03. Heil dir, mein Gast! – 06:13
04. Heil mir, dass ich dich wiederfinde! – 01:12
05. Zu ihm, des tiefe Klagen – 02:03
06. O Herr! War es ein Fluch / Die heil’ge Speisung bleibt uns nun versagt – 05:59
07. Nicht so! Die heil’ge Quelle selbst – 04:01
08. Gesegnet sei, du Reiner, durch das Reine! – 04:42
09. Wie dünkt mich doch die Aue heut so schön – Karfreitagszauber – 02:33
10. Du siehst, das ist nicht so – 06:02
11. Mittag. Die Stund’ ist da / Verwandlungsmusik – 04:12
12. Geleiten wir im bergenden Schrein – 03:31
13. Ja, Wehe! Weh’ über mich! – 06:42
14. Nur eine Waffe taugt – 04:23
15. Höchsten Heiles Wunder! – Erlösung dem Erlöser! – 03:20

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